Pieces-of-parts for supervoxel segmentation with global context: Application to DCE-MRI tumour delineation☆

Highlights • An automatic segmentation method is proposed for dynamic contrast enhanced MRI• We introduce perfusion-supervoxels to over-segment DCE-MRI volumes, and pieces-ofparts to add anatomical constraints to supervoxel segmentations• This method achieves promising results for the underexplored area of automatic rectal tumour segmentation from DCE-MRI scans.

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